Middleburg man sentenced in child-porn case

A 23-year-old Middleburg man was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for possessing nearly 100 images of child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Daniel Richard Bakaley, who pleaded guilty Oct. 17, was also sentenced to a 10-year term of supervision, must register as a sex offender and was ordered to forfeit computer equipment traceable to the offense, according to the prosecutor.

The initial investigation by an undercover Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent determined that a particular computer was hosting child-pornography images on an Internet file sharing service, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Further investigation traced the computer address back to Bakaley’s Middleburg home where agents seized five computers and 22 printed images of child pornography.

Subsequent analysis revealed that three of the computers contained a total of 312 videos and 93 images depicting children engaged in sexually explicit conduct.